pcap_strerror(3PCAP) man page
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This man page documents libpcap version 1.11.0-PRE-GIT (see also: 1.10.4, 1.10.2, 1.10.1, 1.10.0, 1.9.1, 1.8.1, 1.7.4, 1.6.2, 1.5.3).
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pcap_strerror - convert an errno value to a string
SYNOPSIS
#include <pcap/pcap.h> const char *pcap_strerror(int error);
DESCRIPTION
This function returns an error message string corresponding to
error.
It uses either
strerror(3)
or its thread-safe variant if one is available, which currently is the case in
every supported OS.
BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
This function was not thread-safe in libpcap before 1.8.1 on Windows and
in libpcap before 1.11.0 on all other OSes.
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